Vlisco is a very strong fashion brand throughout Africa. Not many people know that these designs are actually created in the Netherlands (Helmond). For the production of an item for BBC, Vlisco requested Africa Interactive to produce high-end footage on their activities in Ghana. With the support of our strong team on the ground in Accra, we could deliver this within the tight deadline.
For the International Labour Organization we recently produced a documentary about one of their programmes to reduce youth unemployment in Kenya. As many developing countries, Kenya is a youthful country with 60% of the population currently between 18 and 34 years. But it is estimated that 38% of the youth is currently not going to school nor being employed.
Hi there! I am Dionijs Burmeister (@dionijs123). I’m 15 years old and study VWO at IJburg College in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I had to do a ‘snuffelstage’ (2-day internship) for my school. My next-door neighbour Pieter van Twisk (managing director of Africa-Interactive) offered me the chance to experience two days in the production department.
Our Kenyan team has been on the road the past days together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ – German Agency for Development Cooperation) to interview 8 young innovators in Nairobi. The topic of the interviews was ‘Youth in Africa – A new mind-set arising?’. A short video will be created from the material and will be used before and during the upcoming BMZ Future Forum 2013 in Berlin.
In 2013 World Water Day will share the topic of Water Cooperation. Key players in the water sector come together in The Hague to discuss the importance of cooperation in improving water situations worldwide. Some of Africa Interactive’s videos will be shown, like the video we created for Vitens Evides.